Well, hello Emma Watson

Another day, another misogynistic anti feminist post 🙄😴

And What a reach this one is, since all it is is Emma Watson saying that although she fundamentally disagrees with JKR (as we have known for a long while) she can still hold in her mind and value at the same time the entirely separate relationship they had. What a radical , unreasonable and childish position eh? 🙄 unlike JKR of course who will apparently "never forgive" EW for not agreeing with her.

lol.

Ugh. Another day, another anti woman post.

she's not particularly bright

’not particularly bright’ people don’t get degrees at Oxford.

She is just a year younger than JKR was when the first HP film was released.

@DoinFineIThink
Emma is being described as a "spoilt child" etc because pp think she is immature. And spoilt. Not that she is in fact a child at 36. I can't believe you don't understand this.

She's 35! She's old enough to know what a woman is.

She was young when she made the HP films but when people can and do have terribly traumatic or abusive childhoods and come through to be fully functioning adults then I do lose sympathy for privileged people who made a lot of money doing something they loved during their youth but claim that it messed their lives up.

Ugh 🙄 Another day, another anti trans post 🥱

She’s passed her test and got a £30k car - she can’t obey the rules of the road and is currently banned.

She’s really not that young.

I think people think she’s a teenager, because that’s how they think of her in screen.

Shes 35 years old.

Edited to add: She was 31 when she made her BAFTAs comment. A fully grown woman

I doubt she's even heard of him. She hasn't used X for years.

Right on the money, @WinterTrees. Bravo!

I'm in two minds.

On the one hand, she's young, she's not particularly bright, and she was just going along with what the loudest voices were saying at the time. It's easy to go along with what you think is the prevailing opinion, and it's really difficult, if your fame, your reputation and your appeal is your career, to go against that.

On the other hand, I do get where the "No, she made her bed she can lie in it" crowd are coming from.

And yes, she lost her license for repeatedly speeding.

My impression, as a detached observer, of Emma Watson is that she is someone who desperately needs to be liked. Her personality is that of a Good Girl - #BeKind isn't so much a slogan as her mission statement. It's a personality type I imagine lots of us recognise from school - the person who thrives on applause and gold stars, and being milk monitor, form rep, prefect, head girl.

How much of that is shaped by the character JKR wrote and EW was employed to embody from such a young age is interesting to speculate on. The fact is she was paid to perform from childhood; to parrot lines without thinking about their meaning, and getting head pats for it. I think that must have had a lasting effect on her. I'm sure global fame at such a young age brings huge pressure and her trauma response seems to be to fawn. (See that cringey interview with Paris Lees where she virtually prostrates herself at Lee's feet to assure him that she would willingly, gladly - nay be honoured - to share a toilet with him.)

But now the tide is turning. Common sense and critical thinking have entered the room. The prevailing narrative is being modified, and suddenly the girl who was a queen bee in the 'right-thinkers' gang is now looking round and realising she's a bit isolated; a lot of the clever, cool people are no longer standing behind her and she's left with... well, an awkward collection of characters.

She defines herself as being clever, being insightful and nuanced - a PhD in creative writing! - and she must be wondering if some of the fawning things she did to belong in the gang ('all bar one') now make her look a bit... unkind. A bit stupid.

With good reason. They do.

I'm guessing she now needs to find a way back. To continue being liked, living up to her privileged 'kindness' values, while also finding some way of staying relevant.

There are loads of people who just don’t say anything.

To go out of your way to make little digs is quite different, especially at the BAFTAs.

She wasn’t even receiving the award, just presenting it, and still had to get her little ‘viral moment’.

She’s a loser, pretending to be a feminist, bowing to the peen.

Watson sounds a bit lost.

I hope she has support to weather the inevitable shitstorm that is going to ensue.

Being famous young never seems to be a positive foundation for a life.

He's half right.

It's not an opinion.
It's also not hate.
It's a fact that humans can't change sex.

Ah - What is an Opinion? 🤔 🤷‍♀️

We are back in Humpty Dumpty land - words mean what I say they mean.

More sad times on this thread:

Sophie Molly
‪@sophiemolly.co.uk‬
It's not an opinion she has though. It's hate!

https://bsky.app/profile/sophiemolly.co.uk/post/3lznmgctur22m

When do you think they'll announce her publishing deal? And what genre do you think she's writing in?

She did drive but lost her license for too many speeding convictions.

Yes, I think some people got themselves tangled up into a bit of a mess.

The supposed logic being, for example:

woman has a cervix —> woman becomes ‘man’ —> ‘man’ has cervix —> ‘men’ can have cervices.

And then when a couple of people you know and respect are transwomen, it can make it hard to focus on the facts.

I agree with this, to a certain extent, @WallaceinAnderland. It clearly took, and still takes, a lot of courage to stand up against trans ideology and the rabid TRAs, and whilst I wish people like Emma had had that courage, I can try to understand why they didn’t. I do hope that more people like Emma start to see the light and the tsunami you speak of happens.

I couldn’t even think of “slums” that were specifically where Italian immigrants settled. There really seems to be a disconnectedness.

I wouldn't blame the parents tbh.

There are many mothers on here who have a fraught relationship with their young adult children because they disagree on what a woman is.